Word: pursuits
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...when our skills and science overmaster chaos and the last surprise flashover consumes its last unlucky victim. Until then, we will have need for those willing to place themselves in the gap between knowledge and peril: the firefighter at the blaze, the police officer in pursuit, the soldier approaching an ambush, the fisherman nearing a gale. Though their perception may prove imperfect, their courage is never obsolete...
...scandal didn't have to happen. He had got divorced in 1991 with no electoral downdraft. As Irish luck would have it, he had married a woman much like the woman who married dear old Granddad: silent in the face of a raw pursuit of power and pleasure. When the marriage ended, Sheila didn't utter a peep, not even asking for alimony. For the sake of the children, she stayed in the Boston area, moving into a rundown house in Cambridge, which she renovated. When Joe soon took up with an aide in his office, Beth Kelly, Sheila said...
...many constituents. Some of them have already organized in his defense; a group calling itself the Justice for Jefferson Committee issued a statement less than a week after the indictment accusing the federal government of using "vast financial resources to manipulate the media" and calling the Justice Department's pursuit of the congressman a betrayal of voters' rights...
...impulse is perfectly American: the U.S. has always thought of itself as something special, has always sought new national challenges in order to "form a more perfect union." It is a frontier impulse firmly rooted in the American DNA, subtly essential to the nation's growth. The mere "pursuit of happiness" can never be enough; we must also go to the moon. Ten years ago, the political writer David Brooks decided that there was a need for "national greatness," for larger national goals, but as a conservative, he had trouble responding to a very basic question: What are those goals...
...leader. I suspect 2008 will be that sort of election. The public has come to understand what market-tested political blather sounds like, and it may be ready to reward a politician who tells some inconvenient truths, to coin a phrase, who asks for the sort of sacrifices, in pursuit of specific goals, that President Bush refused to do. But which sacrifices, which goals...